I really dislike instanced housing and would prefer they keep the wards. Ideally they'd allow for the creation of infinite wards and simply rearrange the houses based on activity every three months or so to concentrate active houses in the lower number wards and push inactive houses to the higher number wards. This should allow 1) for wards to remain mostly intact as they are now 2) let everyone have a house and 3) avoid the problem of having active players sprinkled throughout otherwise desolate and barren wards devoid of life.